Preston Park focus of 3MJC meeting
BUTLER TWP — “You are going to come back.”
Those are the words Tony Stagno told attendees before he even gave his tour Wednesday night of Preston Park.
In 90 minutes, he took guests from the entrance at 415 S. Eberhart Road through a small sampling of the 88 acres offered in the park ending with Frank and Jane Preston’s house.
“That’s the value of Preston Park — not what is in (the house) but what’s out here,” said Stagno, executive director of the nonprofit Friends of Preston Park.
Preston Park’s amenities include walking trails, fishing ponds, wildlife and numerous unique plants.
The park was given to Butler Township by the Preston estate by memorandum in 2010. It was the site of the Preston’s laboratory, owned by Frank and Jane Preston since the 1930s. In December 2012, it was listed in the National Register of Historic Places as Preston Laboratories.
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